Ryanair accident near Lugano

A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-DAH performing flight FR-1703 from Milan Orio al Serio (Italy) to East Midlands,EN (UK) with 134 passengers, was climbing through FL310 about 30nm north of Lugano (Switzerland), when the passenger oxygen masks deployed and the crew initiated an emergency descent reaching 10,000 feet about 5 minutes later (average sinkrate 4200 fpm). The crew turned north, descended to 9000 feet north of the Alps and diverted to Frankfurt Hahn (Germany) for a safe landing. Three people were taken to a hospital.

A replacement Boeing 737-800 registration EI-EBX reached East Midlands with a delay of 4:20 hours.

The airline confirmed the aircraft diverted to Frankfurt Hahn due to a technical fault and later reported three people were taken to a hospital for ear pain but were released shortly after.

A number of passengers reported hearing a bang and feeling a rush of cold air, the crew subsequently was heared on PA to declare "Mayday, emergency descent".


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Ryanair incident at Beauvais

A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-DWE performing flight FR-5222 from Fez (Morocco) to Paris Beauvais-Tille (France), flew through a flock of birds while on approach to Beauvais-Tille Airport's runway 12, a number of birds impacted the aircraft. The aircraft continued for a safe landing on runway 12.

The aircraft was unable to perform the next scheduled flight FR-29 to Dublin. 160 passengers were taken to hotels over night. The incident aircraft was able to depart Beauvais the next noon and reached Dublin with a delay of 13 hours.

Beauvais-Tille Airport is located about 30nm northwest of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. 


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Ryanair incident at London Gatwick

A Ryanair Boeing 737-800, registration EI-ENT performing flight FR-1182 from Shannon (Ireland) to London Gatwick,EN (UK) with 131 people on board, was on a visual approach to Gatwick's runway 08R when the aircraft descended below profile and received a terrain message. The crew corrected the profile and continued for a safe landing on runway 08R.

The NTSB reported that the crew noticed at the same time as the terrain message was issued, that the aircraft had descended too low and corrected their visual approach profile. The United Kingdom's AAIB is investigating the occurrence, the NTSB have assigned an accredited representative as state of manufacture and design of the aircraft.